In Kirk's own words "You know to this day I just think, it could have been me or it couldn't have been me but. Hammett has stated in an interview that he once thought that it easily could have been him who was killed instead, since Burton was sleeping in what was considered to be Hammett's bunk. Burton was thrown through the window of the bus, which fell on top of Burton and subsequently killed him. In the early hours of the following morning, Metallica's tour bus slid off the road and overturned in Sweden. Once the draw was completed, Burton looked at Hammett and said "I want your bunk", to which Hammett complied, saying that he might be able to sleep better in the front of the bus anyway. The outcome of the dispute was decided by a card draw, which Cliff Burton won by picking the Ace of Spades. In 1986, during the band's European leg of their tour to support Master of Puppets, the group had a dispute over sleeping arrangements on their tour bus. The bridge for " Creeping Death" was originally an Exodus riff that Hammett took with him to Metallica. It was the first track and the first single on the band's self-titled album Metallica (also known as The Black Album), and was ranked 399th on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. One of his riffs was used on " Enter Sandman" - which went on to become one of Metallica's most popular songs. Hammett has written a number of riffs for Metallica since Ride the Lightning (the band's second album). Hammett performing live in London in 2008 Exodus was an influential band in the Bay Area thrash movement. Hammett named Exodus after the Leon Uris novel of the same name, and played on the band's 1982 Demo. In 1979, he formed the band Exodus at the age of sixteen, along with vocalist Paul Baloff, guitarist Tim Agnello, bassist Geoff Andrews, and drummer Tom Hunting. Hammett's musical interests eventually drew him into the fledgling thrash metal genre. After purchasing a 1978 Fender Stratocaster copy, Hammett attempted to customize his sound with various guitar parts, before eventually buying a 1974 Gibson Flying V.
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Hammett's first guitar was (in his own words) a "wholly unglamorous" Montgomery Ward catalog special, which was accompanied by a shoebox (with a 4-inch speaker) for an amp. He began selling his horror magazines to buy music records, which led him to properly picking up the guitar at the age of fifteen. Hammett began showing an interest in music after listening to his brother Rick's extensive record collection (which included Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and UFO). For the better part of the next decade, Hammett dove deep into the horror scene. After that, Hammett found himself drawn to his brother's Frankenstein figures, and soon began spending his milk money on horror magazines. It was during this time that he first watched The Day of the Triffids. After spraining his arm in a fight with his sister at the age of five, Hammett's parents placed him in front of the television.
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Hammett has a well-known passion for horror movies that stretches back to the late sixties. While attending De Anza High School, he met Les Claypool of Primus, and they remain close friends.
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He attended De Anza High School in Richmond, California. His mother is of Filipino descent and his father was of English, German, Scottish and Irish ancestry. He is the son of Teofila "Chefela" ( née Oyao) and Dennis L. Hammett was born on November 18, 1962, in San Francisco, California, and raised in the town of El Sobrante.